The Schema is (Still) Mightier than the Sword: How Cognition Predicts Player Spatial Coding Systems

In this 2019 GDC session, Vanessa Hemovich how players learn to navigate game environments through spatial mapping schemas, mental rotation, and feature detection activation for attention-grabbing stimuli.
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Inofficial Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction 1:13 What is a Schema 3:16 Conceptually-driven schema activation 4:27 Data-driven schema activation 6:08 Mixed schema activation 7:36 predicting player attention 9:33 schema violation 12:45 predicting knowledge formation (cognitive mapping) 17:36 predicting knowledge formation (category judgments) - 22:54 configural models 25:00 Takeaways 28:15 QnA

[@GonziHere]

What a nice talk, where do I get the 3 hour masterclass of it? :-)

[@deanvangreunen6457]

same bro

[@cory99998]

If anyone knows can you link me? Wish she had time to go deeper

[@bobhands578]

great talk and interesting questions at the end

[@mstefanwalker3654]

This was excellent. Very interesting topic presented with intriguing clarity

[@KrakenStudiosGames]

Excellent video. I used some of this in my two games.

[@nostrums]

Great content

[@jazcarate]

Anyone know what's the book she refers on the last question? 34:34

[@DanielPodlovics]

I think she's referring to Celia Hodent: celiahodent.com/public-speaking/ Looks like she has lots of excellent resources on her website.

[@jazcarate]

@@DanielPodlovics Thanks :)

[@nyk7979]

Studying this is exactly how to manipulate reactions of people/players/AI when dealing with xenophobia/racisms. Expectations vs presentation maybe? Smoother transitions. From anomalies to standards and how fast. Very interesting stuff!

[@Lovuschka]

The dog has only three legs. :-( Poor puppy!

[@cory99998]

Hes chillin tho

[@OnTaZz]

wish i have a class with her

[@robeastv]

Regarding the 1 dislike above (at this time), was there misinfo in the talk? Or maybe something that could be explained better? Just curious...

[@Asdayasman]

Don't get hung up on dislikes on youtube lmao.

[@ScratchedWinter]

@10:20 reported for graphic images

[@AlexGoldring]

Activate Windows

[@t9h3m]

Go to settings to activate Windows.

[@omagro8267]

As a rocket league player, say sike rn.

[@nikolaisafronov3452]

Orange juice and cck :)

[@prudentibus]

Activate windows or it will do it on its own

[@deanvangreunen6457]

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